The CR test car got about 30 mpg on premium fuel, and about 27 mpg on high-test when the engine was running.
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The cabin trim on our test car was an exquisite claret-colored Nappa top grain leather, set off with alloy and lacquer-black wood trim.
The February issue of Wired magazine has an evocative description of a ride in a Google test car driving itself along a California highway.
The cabin is pretty quiet although we did notice a little bit of wind noise coming from the driver-side frameless window in our test car.
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From the notebook: In the preproduction test car I drove, a little programming gremlin peeked out, as the automatic transmission would occasionally refuse to upshift.
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Mr. Toyoda's approach carries risks, not least of which is the possibility of the type of high-speed accident that killed Toyota's chief test car driver in 2010.
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There was no mention of the Times reviewer having this adapter in his test car, which can provide approximately 20 miles of range in an hour of charging.
Now, of course, everything is relative, and my test car is a 2.0-liter, front-drive compact with an automatic transmission on all-season meats, so it's not remotely a sports car.
Our test car was the TL with SH-AWD ("super-handling all-wheel drive, " one of my favorite overblown Japanese brand phrases) equipped with the 3.7-liter V6 and new-for-2012 six-speed automatic (previously a five-speed).
My test car doesn't have the Triplex rear suspension.
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The engineers have done a beautiful job with wind and tire noise, opting for big acoustic blankets in the wheel wells, which quelled the roar coming from our test car's 19-inch summer tires.
Although heaters are minimized to conserve battery range, Consumer Reports rated a Volt test car at a paltry average 25 miles of electric-only running before the gasoline engine kicked in under cold Connecticut winter conditions.
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Also, the six-speed automatic transmission in my test car (no manuals available in the U.S.) was a little bit fussy, and there were occasions when the engine-transmission software was momentarily stymied as to which gear to jump to.
Harger's "drunkometer, " the first breath test for car drivers, was officially introduced in Indianapolis.
McLaren have had only limited time to test the car and with a busy fortnight approaching they will not get time to put it through its paces until after the trip to Magny-Cours.
German companies have been hard at work placing hundreds of PEVs in lease-only test fleets and car share programs in the United States and Europe.
They will then be taken to southern Europe next spring to test the new car and to tell their friends about it on Facebook and Twitter in German, Russian, French and any other language.
Its main crash-test building yanks a car across the floor while high-speed cameras record every crumple.
Rossi is to test a Formula One car in the new year, but has been tight-lipped about rumours suggesting he might switch codes.
We wouldn't buy a car without test-driving it, and we ought not to rely on the flash of mirrors for our take on reality.
Bigger differences were seen with the Mini 1.6D Cooper, the Volkswagen Golf 1.6 TDI 105 Bluemotion and the Peugeot 3008 Hybrid4, which all promise to deliver between 70mpg and 75mpg, while the What Car? test figures ranged from 46mpg to 53mpg.
"If you don't have aerodynamic features - like the F-duct or the exhaust blown diffuser - then you want to implement them, so you develop them at home, build them on to the car and test them on the race weekend, " explained Schumacher, who was used to unlimited testing in his previous Formula 1 career.
When a wired car is in the blind spot of one of GM's test Cadillacs, an icon of a car lights up in the side mirror.
But the ultimate "road warrior" test was in the family car driving to Florida for a quick 4-day vacation.
His breakthrough came in 1963 when he was asked to test drive a Formula Three car by a customer at his father's Jaguar garage.
Ferrari are still using last year's car but will test their new F2005 before deciding whether to introduce it at the Bahrain GP on 3 April.
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The McLaren Group makes use of telemetry systems that utilize data generated by race car sensors in test and practice sessions as well as actual races.
Brawn shocked F1 by turning up at the final pre-season test in 2009 with a car that was nearly a second faster than anything else after a battle to survive following the withdrawal of former owner Honda.
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He said it was worrying that people could take their driving test in a smaller vehicle but then buy a van which "is five, six times bigger than the car you've passed your test in, and you can just jump in and drive away, having no experience of driving a van at all".
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